Million-dollar mistake at Dreamhost. A $7.5 million
error this morning at the world's 15th largest hosting company has left most of it customers short by hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Discussion boards are reporting a
litany of overdrafts, credit card overlimit fees, and bounced checks.
posted by chips ahoy
on Jan 15, 2008 -
125 comments
Everyone is (probably) familiar with
Something Awful. However, you may not be familiar with their hosting company - located in a New Orleans office building on Poydras in the CBD... but have you noticed that SA hasn't gone blank yet? It's because
Zipa, and
directNIC upstairs have the whole data center disaster contingency thing on
lockdown.
Blog and
pictures from the directNIC guys are regularly updated. Color me impressed.
posted by kuperman
on Aug 31, 2005 -
69 comments
Too good to be true? United Internet is launching its public hosting service with a special promotion:
a full 500 meg hosting account free for three years. Includes email hosting, FTP and shell access, 5 gigs of transfers, Perl, Python, PHP and MySQL... plus $25 worth of Google AdWords. Sounds fishy to me, but they never asked for my credit card when I signed up.
posted by johnnydark
on Nov 14, 2003 -
58 comments
GeoCities was once the darling of the online world to every-man wanted to post his own web site. Free space for all, and all were happy. Then Yahoo! bought it, and the dot-com collapse occurred. Now, GeoCities offers
new premium packages, offering more features. But at $19.95 before you can even having scripting, traditional web hosts greatly undercut Yahoo!'s offering, and offer more in terms of features still.
posted by benjh
on Mar 11, 2002 -
13 comments
The Morning News Gets Hosed. Due to a server meltdown (and probable incompetence by their webhosting provider) the guys at Morning News lost all kinds of data. Now on a new server, their old host is looking into the possibility of coughing up a decent backup. As a website designer who relies on the kindness of server farms, I know I've been hosed this way before. Since they can't be relied on to provide good backups, when was the last time you backed up your site yourself? Better make one today!
posted by crunchland
on Jan 9, 2002 -
11 comments
Web Hosting prices
must be at an all time
low for this sort of thing to be going on. What's the deal? Must be a good deal though. Quite nice though.
posted by semper
on Oct 16, 2001 -
17 comments
Has anyone seen
this hosting company before? They seem very cheap but I have no idea whether they are reliable.
posted by ecvgi
on Aug 23, 2001 -
17 comments
A working internet business model? Say it ain't so! While checking out my options for hosting companies, i found these guys. They struck me as geeks with a dry sense of humour.
hmmm... Maybe if i trust my websites in the hands of geeks, i won't have to worry about my host disappearing from under me due to some suit blowing capital on a fancy chair. (+2 points for having a site that believes in function over aesthetics. maybe they're on to something here as well...) I dunno, maybe i stumbled on to something grand in the making? A company that actually cares?!? o_O
posted by jcterminal
on Jun 29, 2001 -
6 comments
It has to stop! (via
rc3) Someone puts up a website, people like it and come back for more, then they tell their friends - and so on. The problem is, the site becomes
popular and prohibitively expensive and a valuable resource either gets put behind a pay per view gate, disappears, or the site owner has to
bite the bullet and pay a huge hosting fee. (more inside)
posted by owillis
on Apr 13, 2001 -
36 comments
TANGMONKEY.COM is suffering from server problems. Although their email system still works, I worry about the rash of personal sites (
nosepilot/gisol.org, especially, comes to mind) that are going down due to traffic beyond the "moderate" level. The host that TM's using is charging them several hundred dollars as their <=100 hits/day equals > 30 gB outging traffic. What's the solution? Are there cheaper/better hosts? Should "personal" content sites start advertising? I can't imagine that helping...
posted by Marquis
on Apr 5, 2001 -
4 comments
If you tried to switch hosting services only to have your domain held hostage, and if no one else can help, maybe you can hire
DomainRescue.
posted by jjg
on Dec 5, 2000 -
8 comments
I'm saying this from experience: avoid Interland.com's web hosting at all costs. These guys are one of the nation's largest web hosting operations and every minute I've had to deal with them has been painful. Their uptime is terrible, their NT servers are so unreliable that your site may be down more than it is up on an average day, and when I asked their tech support staff about it, they basically said '
if you want better uptime, upgrade to a higher account.' That type of arrogance and customer disservice shouldn't be rewarded by new customers. Avoid these people at all costs.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 22, 1999 -
0 comments
